2017 National Brewing Championships

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Thanks for recording that mick. I just got home and logged on to see any news . Saw the link clicked on it and my name was called out 10 seconds later. My heart was thumping. I genuinely didn't believe it. Logged on again stood nxt to wife and no mention of me. I realised it was live so downloaded and  relistened.
.......... Totally made my entire year so far... tytyty for re recording. Still in shock I won a gold medal. Seeing it  called out made it UNBELIEVABLY  AWESOME !

That's what it's all about, well done!

[wallacebiy]

I'm confused

Neither of the categories I entered were announced ?

Was there a change in the groupings ?

[rebel]

not all the cats seem to be announced in the clips.

[Leann ull]

I'm sure after hangovers clear they will be announced tomorrow.
Can you not see your scores on comp site, they are usually posted live?

[wallacebiy]

There was medals for " Spice and fruit beer "
so I presume my 30A Vanilla stout was in that .

But where did 15C end up ?

[oblivious]

I'm sure after hangovers clear they will be announced tomorrow.
Can you not see your scores on comp site, they are usually posted live?

Is there a link?

Please

[mick02]

There was medals for " Spice and fruit beer "
so I presume my 30A Vanilla stout was in that .

But where did 15C end up ?

I was stewarding that table and tasted your beer.

[wallacebiy]

Lucky lad Mick !!

[mick02]

[wallacebiy]

I reckon that was the last bottle

It got slaughtered down here

[Skittlebrau]

Watched the results feed, very exciting stuff. Managed to bag the bos but a little embarrassed now as I had hoped to help with the judging today but moving house this weekend. Atmosphere looks great on the video, well done to all involved and apologies for not making it to help out today.

[Rosmucman]

I'm the lad with the name yee had trouble with  Seosamh O Conaire.
I'm delighted to have won a gold
Thanks lads for all the hard work yee put in!

[wallacebiy]

29A Fruit Beer 29B Fruit and Spice Beer   29C Speciality Fruit Beer   30A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Were these four categories pushed in together ?

[giacomo]

All category info are in The 2017 National Brewing Championships Medal Categories (shared about 1 month ago in this thread)

[giacomo]

2017 National Brewing Championships - Medal Categories

Last year's Championship medal categories had:

• Categories with 1 or 2 entries
• A few beers won medals with no real competition
• Categories with 30+ entries
• Worthy beers may have been overlooked in mini-Best-in-Shows

This year, we wanted to spread out the entries as evenly as possible but still group styles together in a way that makes sense.

That's why the NHC is using these new categories for judging + awarding medals at Nationals:

The 2017 National Brewing Championships Medal Categories

FAQ
How did you come up with these categories?
We started with Appendix A (5) in the Guidelines, then tweaked by style family.

Why is [this style] lumped together with/broken out from [this other style]?
Numbers.
Less frequently-brewed styles - lagers, for example - were amalgamated with others like it.
Popular styles like IPAs were split up.

Does this hurt my chances?
Not if you make good beer! 
For someone who made a Munich Dunkel, there are more horses in your race than there would've been last year.
But for the average NHC member who made, say, a stout, your odds of winning have probably gone up.

Are you allowed to do this?
Definitely.
From the 2015 BJCP Beer Style Guidelines, page iv:
"There is no requirement that competitions use style categories as award categories! Individual styles can be grouped in any fashion to create desired award categories in competition, for instance to balance out the number of entries in each award category."

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me directly.
And good luck to everyone!

Here, to be specific